Training in prevention of occupational risks for freelancers

in Valencia, Castellón and Barcelona

-Union of mutual promotes training in prevention, specific and adapted to the peculiarities of the self-employed worker.

– organizes for the month of November-eight training sessions on prevention of occupational hazards to the collective self.

Valencia, November 2011- with the aim to inform, guide and raise the awareness of prevention and safety, mutual Union has organized these training activities focusing on delivering priority to companies with self care so that they incorporate or improve the prevention of risks in the positions of labour.

Labour, health, the risks linked to working conditions and the specific risks linked to the sector and the activity of the company, are some of the content to be developed by the prevention service of the mutual, organizer of the Conference. The rights and obligations arising from the law on prevention of occupational risks as well as the integration of risk management in the business of autonomous professional environment will also be addressed.

These courses, Union of mutual to the culture of prevention also comes to this group of workers that, traditionally, has been away from the policies of occupational health and the prevention of industrial accidents. He is trying to get themselves self-employed to join the trend of awareness-raising is present in the Spanish companies with regard to the preventive culture and occupational health for some years, and it must still deeper between employers and workers.

To this end, mutual Union promotes training in prevention specific and adapted to the specificities of self-employed workers. The courses are set guidelines this group in the exercise of his activity to win effectiveness and efficiency as a result of the proper management of prevention and safety at work.

In Spain there is 1 ’ 8 million self-employed persons, registered in the first quarter of the year, according to data provided by the Union of professionals and self-employed workers, UPTA.

In recent years, at the legislative level, some initiatives have been adopted to improve the status of autonomous work, in terms of rights and obligations, the level of social protection, relations work, promotion of self-employment, as well as the figure of the economically dependent self-employed worker.

In this sense, the managing director of Union of mutual, Juan Enrique Blasco has stressed that there are many people who, in the midst of the current crisis, are launching in search of the own work as a way to move forward, we must therefore encourage and support the self-employed because they are entrepreneurscreators of employment, and we must help them to keep it the activity or the business that have created ”.

These classes of risk prevention for self-employed are framed in the Plan of training activities for 2011 of mutual Union, pursuant to the Ministry of labour with regard to the regulation of preventive activities to be developed by the mutual accident and occupational disease of Social Security, for the present year.

The training sessions will take place in Valencia the days 9, 10, 15 and 16 November; in Barcelona the days 21, 22, 29 and 30 of the same month and in Castellón during the month of January 2012.

Union of mutual

Union of mutual is the mutual first of the Comunitat Valenciana in assistance by work-related accidents and occupational diseases. One in three workers receive coverage of Union of mutual protects 60,000 associates and 238.220 workers. Union of mutual part of mutual Corporation, the first mutual fund group of Spain, which brings together other seven Spanish mutual, protects three million workers, and has 330 own centres distributed throughout the peninsula. Within the Corporation, Union of mutual leads the Group’s Corporate Social responsibility.